CryoSat: A mission to determine the fluctuations in Earth's land and marine ice fields

DJ Wingham, CR Francis, S Baker, C Bouzinac… - Advances in Space …, 2006 - Elsevier
… (a) The first direct measurements of grounded Antarctic ice sheet mass loss to the ocean,
revealed by ERS measurements of the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers’ drainage basins, in …

Sensitivity of CryoSat-2 Arctic sea-ice freeboard and thickness on radar-waveform interpretation

R Ricker, S Hendricks, V Helm, H Skourup… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
… Arctic ice-volume decrease at global scale, the CryoSat-2 … sea-ice freeboard defined as the
height of the ice surface above … CryoSat-2 range measurements over open water and the ice

Retrievals of lake ice thickness from great slave lake and great bear lake using CryoSat-2

JF Beckers, JA Casey, C Haas - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… thickens, there is increased scattering and absorption loss as the Ku-band signal moves
through more ice and potentially more air bubbles [24], [26]. While theoretically this suggests …

[HTML][HTML] Mass balance of Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Russian High Arctic, using time-variable gravity from grace and altimetry data from ICESat and Cryosat-2

E Ciracì, I Velicogna, TC Sutterley - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
… of the total ice mass loss takes place over marine-terminating glaciers on the Barents Sea
coast. Our results suggest that ice dynamics plays a dominant role in the ongoing mass loss of …

Assessment of the Greenland ice sheet change (2011–2021) derived from CryoSat-2

S Liu, J Jiang, Q Sun, J Wan, H Sheng - Polar Science, 2023 - Elsevier
… based on ICESat data from 2003 to 2008 and calculated interannual ice sheet losses
ice sheet changes using the most recent CryoSat-2 data. In this paper, the latest CryoSat-2

[HTML][HTML] CryoSat Ice Baseline-D validation and evolutions

M Meloni, J Bouffard, T Parrinello, G Dawson… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
… Level 2 (L2) CryoSat Ice Baseline-D evolutions and related data quality assessment, based
on results obtained from analyzing the 6-month Baseline-D test dataset released to CryoSat

About the consistency between Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar freeboard retrieval over Antarctic sea ice

S Schwegmann, E Rinne, R Ricker, S Hendricks… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
… Results indicate that mean and modal values are in reasonable agreement over the sea-ice
first-year ice zone while CryoSat-2 freeboards are higher in the multiyear ice zone and near …

[HTML][HTML] CryoSat-2 interferometric mode calibration and validation: A case study from the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard

A Morris, G Moholdt, L Gray, TV Schuler… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… ) transects and laser altimeter overflights of the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard, to measure
the … is present, otherwise the ice surface) and elevations derived from CryoSat-2 SARIn-mode …

[HTML][HTML] Regional assessments of surface ice elevations from swath-processed CryoSat-2 SARIn data

NH Andersen, SB Simonsen, M Winstrup, J Nilsson… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
… radar altimeter SIRAL onboard CryoSat-2 (CS2) has … ice surface [11]. Other examples
include the heterogeneous and rapid ice loss over the challenging regions of the Patagonian ice

[HTML][HTML] Empirical parametrization of Envisat freeboard retrieval of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice based on CryoSat-2: progress in the ESA Climate Change Initiative

S Paul, S Hendricks, R Ricker, S Kern, E Rinne - The Cryosphere, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
… freeboard for every month of the MOP separately for Envisat and CryoSat-2. Subsequently,
we computed the sea-ice freeboard difference of Envisat minus CryoSat-22 and 3. From Figs. …